Greetings: 
Thank you all for your past orders. Last year you gave us the best bulb business in our 
history and we hope and expect that 1950 wiil be even better. 
PRICES 
All prices include parcel post charges. Do not break groups when the list price is 2 at 
25c or less. Where bulbs are listed at more than 2 at 25c, you may purchase one bulb at 
one half the two bulb rate. Five bulbs may be purchased at one half the ten rate and 
twenty-five at one quarter the hundred rate. 
Please send remittance by check or money order. We cannot be responsible for currency 
sent with order. 
EXTRAS 
It has been our habit to give our customers generous extra count proportionate to the 
size of their order. Even on an order for a collection of 30 for $1.50, we have thrown in two 
or three extras (or roughly, 10% over count). We regret that parcel post increases no 
longer make this possible on small orders of low cost varieties or collections. On varieties 
which retail at 10 for $1.00 or more, we will still include extras provided your order amounts 
to $3.00 or more, but the extras will be proportionate to the number of higher priced bulbs 
included in your order. 
Inasmuch as some growers do not accept orders for less than $2.00 and sometimes even 
$3.00, we feel that we are justified in taking these steps. With us, any size order is welcome 
but the less than 10 for $1.00 varieties as well as the collections are such good values in 
themselves that we no longer feel that bonus bulbs are justified. 
OUR LIST 
We iist about 115 varieties, some of which are old favorites still well worth growing. We 
make no claim of being a large grower. Our acreage is comparatively small and our catalog 
is modest. Many growers issue catalogs containing 500-600 varieties, many of which would 
have to be rather inferior types. It is our plan to gradually increase our listing to 150 or 200 
of the largest, most beautiful and healthiest varieties. We feel that the larger listing only 
confuses the average home gardener who wants good quality and good variety at a moderate 
price. 
We have no illustrations but you can depend upon our descriptions to be perfectly honest 
and should we list a variety and then fail to rate it very highly, there is a reason for listing it, 
one of which might be popular demand for that color. A good example of this is ‘‘Abu Hassan,” 
a beautiful purple which is described by most growers as a deep blue. It is a beautiful shade 
loved by all who see it but it is not a healthy variety at all and | wouldn’t advise anyone to 
buy it. I shall list it only until something better at a moderate price is found to replace it. 
“Ravel’’ is a little better but no blue that | know of is as healthy as other varieties (why | 
don’t know). 
BLOOMING DATES 
It is very difficult for a grower to state definitely the number of days required for a 
variety to bloom. In fact, it is an impossibility since the time varies in different parts of the 
country under different climatic conditions and differing soils. The time of planting also 
affects the blooming date as well as the size of the bulb planted. 
| have tried to give a rough guide in my catalog. Following is the key. 
E—-EARLY——60-70 days 
EM—EARLY MID-SEASON—70-80 days 
M—MID-SEASON—80-90 days 
LM—LATE MID-SEASON—90-100 days 
L—-LATE—100 or over 
